Subdomain Redirection

[FirefoxRocks 0]

I would like to know if pages can redirect to the subdomain URL instead of the folder in public_html.

For example:
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ goes to http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ where I have a folder called feral in my public_html folder.

I want http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ to go to http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ and the pages within the feral directory to do that too. (e.g. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/armyCalc.php to http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/armyCalc.php).

How do I do this within cPanel?

Edited November 29, 2009 by FirefoxRocks (see edit history)

[Nabb 0]

You could try hacking something up using mod_rewrite. For example, you could rewrite http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ to http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/=, which would redirect them based on the value in q. Hopefully this doesn't cause an infinite redirection loop..

[tansqrx 0]

Create a subdomain under your Cpanel

1. Log into your Cpanel.
2. Click Subdomains under the Domains group.
3. Enter âferalâ in the Subdomain field
4. Enter âferal/â in the Document Root field.
5. Click Create.

If all goes well and I understand what you want then this should be your solution. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ should redirect to your /feral/ directory.

[FirefoxRocks 0]

Create a subdomain under your Cpanel
1. Log into your Cpanel.
2. Click Subdomains under the Domains group.
3. Enter "feral" in the Subdomain field
4. Enter "feral/" in the Document Root field.
5. Click Create.

If all goes well and I understand what you want then this should be your solution. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ should redirect to your /feral/ directory.

Other way around, I want the /feral directory to redirect to the subdomain.

[Quatrux 4]

You need to use htaccess files in order to do this, one way is to use mod_rewrite, here is the code:

Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinksRewriteEngine OnRewriteBase /RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC]RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com [L,R=301]RedirectMatch 301 ^/blog/(.*)$ http://blog.example.com/$1

So whenever someone will go to example.com/blog/ it will redirect him/it to your subdomain blog.example.com with a permanent redirect code 301, which is good for lets say spiders and other web robots.

More about it on this blog entry I found through google: http://terriswallow.com/2008/03/11/htacce-and-force-www/

Another way would be doing the same thing with PHP, if you're using index.php you just need to check $_SERVER superglobal HTTP_HOST as I remember if it's not blog.example.com but only example.com also redirect with a 301 code using header() + Location, it will do the same, but I believe using htaccess method is much better, as I think it will also redirect example.com/blog/images/Logo.jpg to blog.example.com/images/Logo.jpg where using PHP would only redirect dynamic pages.

[TavoxPeru 0]

Excelent information Quatrux, some time ago i had try to do something similar with bad results, i never can made it to work. When i have some spare time i will try again, i hope now it works.

 

Best regards,

[FirefoxRocks 0]

Do I put this htaccess file within the /feral/ directory or the / root directory? And I would prefer to redirect all resources, not just the PHP pages.

[Quatrux 4]

I guess it's enough to put the .htaccess file in you root directory of subdomain.example.com so whenever someone goes to any resource in example.com/subdomain/ he will get redirected to the same resource through the subdomain.example.com

[iGuest 3]

ThanksSubdomain Redirection

Quatrux, thank you so much for posting this. Exactly what I was looking for and I searched everywhere for this..

-reply by Deran

 

[Xamire 0]

You can either use cpanel to forward them, or do what I do, and use a simple .htaccess file

 

Make a text file, name it htaccess - add this info:

 

Redirect 301 / http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

 

Then you simply upload via ftp, and use it in whatever directory you need it in. (main file if using Xisto to the site above),

and then rename it with a period in front of the htaccess (.htaccess).

Very easy to do, and works well.

Edited May 29, 2011 by xamire (see edit history)